THE
FIFTEENTH GYALWA KARMAPA, Khakhyab Dorje, was born
with the highly auspicious 'treasure-hair' growing on his
brow. This is one of the thirty-two marks of an enlightened
being and was noted on the young Shakyamuni.

He grew up receiving a very thorough education from famous
scholars and eventually received the Kagyu transmission from
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, who also passed on to him the
essence of his hundred compositions embracing the profound
teachings of all Tibetan Buddhist traditions, as well as the
domains of medicine, art, linguistics and general Buddhist
studies.

His life was a brilliant example of the bodhisattva with
an insatiable desire for learning in order to help other beings.
Some years before his passing, he entrusted a prediction letter
to his closest attendant.